From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:27:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050813052731.GC11456@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508122151120.19049@g5.osdl.org>
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:05:11PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> HOWEVER, if all you want to do is just a tar-file, then there's a better
> solution. It's called
>
> snap=git-snapshot-$(date +"%Y%m%d")
> git-tar-tree HEAD $snap | gzip -9 > $snap.tar.gz
>
> which is even easier, and a hell of a lot more efficient.
Nice. That takes noticably less time to create the sparse/git snapshots
compared to my crappy old script. And its now less than half the size.
I'm sold.
> Git actually has a _lot_ of nifty tools. I didn't realize that people
> didn't know about such basic stuff as "git-tar-tree" and "git-ls-files".
Maybe its because things are moving so fast :) Or maybe I just wasn't
paying attention on that day. (I even read the git changes via RSS,
so I should have no excuse).
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-13 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-13 4:17 Fwd: Re: git checkout -f branch doesn't remove extra files Dave Jones
2005-08-13 5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-13 5:27 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-08-13 5:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-13 5:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-13 11:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-08-13 12:10 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-08-13 12:33 ` Petr Baudis
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